This excellent letter by Isaac Asimov was brought to my attention by Andy Schueler in this thread. Enjoy, it’s a…
Tag epistemology
Partly in response to some feedback, and partly because it is about time, I thought I’d post a philosophical essay of mine looking at epistemology. Here, I hope to set out how I come by knowledge. Let me know what you think, as ever.
I thought I’d resurrect this old chestnut. This was reported by the Secular Outpost some time ago:
“As reported by Christianity Today (see here), New Testament scholar Michael Licona has apparently lost both his job as research professor of New Testament at Southern Evangelical Seminary and been ousted as apologetics coordinator for the North America Mission Board (NAMB).
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“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Your problem here is that it is not a mantra designed to be talking about primary evidence. Primary evidence is the best evidence (usually, assuming sound of mind and not hallucinating etc). Your analogy fails because you are saying “If you could see both things with your bear eyes, then you would see they are both true.” However, this is a false analogy since we are talking about the standards of secondary and tertiary evidence.
I was having a discussion about evolution over on another thread of a post I made from the other day.…
As Promised, the concluding part to yesterday’s blog post. Is there really no overlap between the domains of science and…
This post will be split into two parts due to its length. This will allow any posters to be able…